Kroah-Hartman was asked at the 2012 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco about Android as a first class citizen to the Linux kernel. Greg's response was basically, "It is today...Linux 3.3 kernel can boot Android user-space...while eating the battery alive."

The latest Linux kernel can boot Google's mobile platform, but there's still more mainline work to be done and it's at a greater rate of power consumption than Google's modified kernel. Greg went on to add that it's just not "up to us [the mainline Linux kernel developers]" but Google also needs to make some changes on the Android user-space side for interfacing with the vanilla kernel. This will likely take some time on Google's six-month release cadence for Android to make the API changes.

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